No matter how old I get, the race remains one of life's most rewarding experiences. My times become slower and slower, but the experience of the race is unchanged: each race a drama, each race a challenge, each race stretching me in one way or another, and each race telling me more about myself and others.

It's very hard in the beginning to understand that the whole idea is not to beat the other runners. Eventually you learn that the competition is against the little voice inside you that wants you to quit.

Because until we write it down, we don't know what is actually at the root of our lives.

If marathoners finish they win.

There are as many reasons for running as there are days in a year.... But mostly I run because I am an animal and a child.

Sport is an essential element of education.

Why race? The need to be tested, perhaps; the need to take risks; and the chance to be number one.